Not only that, but millions of Britons are suffering the same fate as Americans--bad mortgages, foreclosures, etc., from what I read in the financials. Their estate agents and mortgage brokers have a crack in their ethical standards as well as those in the US.
Meanwhile, Clinton's "bet on the filly" message should come back to haunt her--her pick, "Eight Belles", had to be put down on the track, suffering from multiple injuries to a leg...such irony!
And shouldn't Obama have favored "Big Brown" instead of "Colonel John?"
Of course, Clinton got all the publicity for her pick, not Obama (didn't even know he favored a horse until today--sometimes comments should be reserved for more important things). Tsk, tsk. Never listen to a politician at the track. : )
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Which reminds me of how ethno-centric horse racing is...of course, you have to be loaded with money to own one of those horses, too.
Stephen Foster is described as the "father of American music." But, those "workingmen's campgrounds" were full of slaves and other ethnics (Chinese, for instance) in involuntary servitude, building those railroads.
Hasn't American capitalism always been about cheap labor?
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
JP Morgan financed England's participation in World War I, which goes to show that things haven't changed very much.
It was about oil then, too.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Tony Blair would have probably been a successful slave trader in earlier times...
AngelaChanning
· 1 year ago
Wow...six homes! Much of the world would love to have 6 rooms!
crianp
· 1 year ago
$8 million, than again that is 4 million pounds which given the cost of housing in England, ain't that bad. I will say that I do like Mr.Blair however if JP Morgan is using tax payer money to help fund this lavish lifestyle, that is something I don't approve of.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
$8 million, and a growing list of houses, compared to overpriced housing and bad loans for the rest of the commoners...wow, just like in the US. No wonder JPMorgan loves Blair...he fits right in with the other greedheads on Wall St. The Blairs are to the Labour Party what the Clintons are to the Democratic Party...
HMartinez
· 1 year ago
Did anyone notice that the horse Billary picked to win the Derby was the one that croaked, LOL?! Drudge has a big story on it. Do we really want someone that stupid to have their finger on the nucular button? Everything the Clintons touch seems to turn tragic, rotflmao!
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Just heard an ad by Mike Easley (gov of my state, NC) and what a yawn it was. Easley has absolutely NO charisma, horrible speaking style, and down here we continue to say, "Mike Who?" since he's so seldom seen. Easley is a pretty conservative Dem (which are all that NC elects most of the time).
And it appears that Kay Hagan, another of that type, will beat Jim Neal in the primary run for the Senate as well. Neither are said to have the support to beat Dole (damn it). Sometimes in NC, it's hard to single out a conservative Dem from a Rethug.
And I haven't seen a Dem sign anywhere for anyone running against that little fascist, Patrick McHenry in this district, either. The Dem Party in NC has always had trouble finding progressive candidates who can sway backwards thinking here.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
Nothing is so shiny as new money. It sparkles! I vaguely remember Ms Cherie Blair was sort of snubbed by old money Brits as being rather uppity new money Cockney trash, way back when. Seems Miss Cherie is now a queen. Wouldn't ya just love to have a hidden microphone at Windsor to hear what the HRH's think of Her Blairship now?
lynchie
· 1 year ago
O&W: i am so very sorry you are represented by Patrick "tough guy" McHenry. I on the other hand have Spechter and Casey two peas from the same pod really. Casey is certainly better than dogs on men Sanitarium. This Blair thing is despicable, did the money for homes come from the oil companies (British Petroleum and the like). How do the politicians end up multimillionaires at the expense of the people they supposedly represent? Same in American no wonder they all want to be Senators or Congressmen the power, money and perks are tremendous.
rolando
· 1 year ago
When closing my JPMorgan-Chase "Platinum" VISA, which had been open for over 20 year, an "account manager" was put on the phone doing her best to make me change my mind, when she pressed for a reason my response was "beacuse your hired Tony Blair as an over paid international consultant" she immediately hung up...ACCOUNT CLOSED!
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
I see we bombed a hospital in Iraq.
BAGHDAD — A major hospital in Baghdad's Sadr City slum was damaged Saturday when an American military strike targeted a militia command center just a few yards away, the U.S. military said.
American troops also killed 14 people in separate incidents in and around Sadr City as bloody street battles continued to mark the U.S. effort to rid the area of suspected Shiite Muslim militants, military officials said.
The rocket strike near Sadr Hospital injured 30 people, shattered the windows of ambulances and sent doctors and hospital staff fleeing the scene, hospital officials said.
I read two years ago, that for "Poodle-boys" devotion to W, that he was given a seat on the board of Carlyle Group...right beside Old Bush & the bin ladens! Seems appropriate, don't you think?!
Bluestocking
· 1 year ago
At a time when a sizable number of Brits are losing their homes to foreclosure just as Americans are here in the States, you have to admit that it really is in somewhat poor taste to say the least for the former Prime Minister to be buying what to all accounts is a palatial estate. I realize that he probably did this as an investment, but really...shouldn't there come a point at which a family like this asks itself how much money and how many homes it *really* needs in order to be comfortable, and especially when the odds of this family ever facing anything remotely resembling poverty are remote in the extreme? How much of their money do the Blairs contribute to charity, I wonder?
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Meanwhile, Clinton's "bet on the filly" message should come back to haunt her--her pick, "Eight Belles", had to be put down on the track, suffering from multiple injuries to a leg...such irony!
And shouldn't Obama have favored "Big Brown" instead of "Colonel John?"
Of course, Clinton got all the publicity for her pick, not Obama (didn't even know he favored a horse until today--sometimes comments should be reserved for more important things). Tsk, tsk. Never listen to a politician at the track. : )
Reminds me also of this little racist tune:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camptown_Races
Stephen Foster is described as the "father of American music." But, those "workingmen's campgrounds" were full of slaves and other ethnics (Chinese, for instance) in involuntary servitude, building those railroads.
Hasn't American capitalism always been about cheap labor?
It was about oil then, too.
And it appears that Kay Hagan, another of that type, will beat Jim Neal in the primary run for the Senate as well. Neither are said to have the support to beat Dole (damn it). Sometimes in NC, it's hard to single out a conservative Dem from a Rethug.
And I haven't seen a Dem sign anywhere for anyone running against that little fascist, Patrick McHenry in this district, either. The Dem Party in NC has always had trouble finding progressive candidates who can sway backwards thinking here.
This Blair thing is despicable, did the money for homes come from the oil companies (British Petroleum and the like). How do the politicians end up multimillionaires at the expense of the people they supposedly represent? Same in American no wonder they all want to be Senators or Congressmen the power, money and perks are tremendous.
BAGHDAD — A major hospital in Baghdad's Sadr City slum was damaged Saturday when an American military strike targeted a militia command center just a few yards away, the U.S. military said.
American troops also killed 14 people in separate incidents in and around Sadr City as bloody street battles continued to mark the U.S. effort to rid the area of suspected Shiite Muslim militants, military officials said.
The rocket strike near Sadr Hospital injured 30 people, shattered the windows of ambulances and sent doctors and hospital staff fleeing the scene, hospital officials said.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/iraq/story/35735.html